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According to him, Mr Simson informed the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy about the cancellation of ENSREG’s visit on Tuesday. On Wednesday a mission of high-level experts was due to take place to Belarus, where it was planned to assess the progress of the Astrava nuclear power plant in implementing the basic EU nuclear safety requirements.
“Belarus has refused to cooperate in the implementation of the basic EU safety requirements for nuclear energy.” It is unlikely that ENSREG will be able to publish its final conclusions in January without being able to go to Astrava (…).
The Belarusian Ministry of Energy has previously announced that ENSREG experts will visit the construction site of the Belarusian nuclear power plant from 16 to 18 December to further evaluate the national action plan developed after the 2018 stress test. ENSREG , after evaluating the results of the stress tests of the Astravo nuclear power plant in 2017-2018, did not detect any security threats, but provided additional recommendations.
Lithuania claims that the Astrava nuclear power plant built near the border does not meet environmental and safety requirements.
Recently, there were reports in the media that the emergency cooling system at the power plant had been damaged and several voltage transformers had failed. Minsk says there have been no special incidents.
EU leaders asked the European Commission last Friday to establish a mechanism that provides tools to prevent unsafe electricity from entering the EU market.
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